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Over the years, technical conferences tend to expand beyond their initial focus, adding new technologies, types of attendees, and a broader range of sessions and speakers. From its original focus on Apache Spark™, the Spark + AI Summit has extended its scope to include not only data engineering and infrastructure, but also machine learning automation...

The Spark + AI Summit is already the world’s largest data and machine learning conference bringing together engineers, scientists, developers, analysts and leaders from around the world. This year is shaping up to be our biggest conference ever, with over 7,000 attendees expected to attend four days of training sessions, presentations and networking events. We’ve...

Databricks was proud to be a Platinum sponsor at re:Invent. The past year has been an exciting one for our partnership with AWS, as we built new integrations and deepened existing ones with so many AWS services. re:Invent was a great opportunity to showcase how our joint customers have benefitted from those integrations and we...

From left to right: Shveta, Julia, Yardley Pohl (a WIP board member and co-founder), Anna, Allie, Cyrielle, and Rani at the Databricks booth Databricks was a proud sponsor of the 2019 Women In Product conference which focuses on empowering women in product management and advocating for equal representation. We had a booth and happy hour...

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, thousands of attendees participated in hands-on workshops, breakout sessions, and theater presentations to learn how customers are achieving phenomenal results with Azure Databricks! It was an action-packed week of making new connections and learning about new innovation across data science, data engineering, and business analytics. We shared the news that over...

Spark + AI Summit Europe 2019 came to Amsterdam this past week! Over 2,300 data scientists, data engineers, and global business leaders from 63 different countries descended upon the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, for the latest community and open source developments around Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas, and more. Check out the keynote recordings...

Spark + AI Summit is Europe’s largest data and machine learning conference, and the big news in 2019 is how many women are driving some of the greatest advances in big data, machine learning, and data science. This 15-17 October in Amsterdam, more than 1700 data scientists, engineers, and developers will gather to share best...

Education and the pursuit of knowledge are lifelong journeys: they never complete; there is always something new to learn; a new professional certification to add to your credit; a knowledge gap to fill. Training at Spark + AI Summit, Europe is not only about becoming an Apache Spark expert. Nor is it only about being...

The Spark + AI Summit Europe is just around the corner, and it's a great opportunity for data scientists and Machine Learning (ML) practitioners to get up to speed on the latest tools and innovations in the field! Below is a selection of talks on ML best practices for productionizing ML at scale, real-life use...

You might have heard the famous saying, “Why software is eating the world.” But if software is eating the world, you may ask, where does software come from? Naturally, Developers! Some software developers advocate that the “Developers are eating the world.” A research report by Stripe indicates that “developers have the ability to raise global...